A porcelain plaque painted with Tunisian horsemen - image-1

Lot 1057 Dα

A porcelain plaque painted with Tunisian horsemen

Auction 1117 - overview Cologne
16.11.2018, 15:00 - Treasures from a Lower Saxon Collection
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 2.480 € (incl. premium)

A porcelain plaque painted with Tunisian horsemen

Impressed 388 E. H 14.8, W 24.7, frame H 29.3, W 39.5 cm.
The porcelain presumably German, the decor after a motif by Georges Washington.

Literature

Cf. Cazenave, Les Artistes de l'Algérie, Paris 2010, p. 434. Georges Washington (1827 - 1910) took numerous trips to Northern Africa, Marocco, and Algeria. He specialised in North African themes such as horsemen and landscapes, which he treated with extraordinary chromatic brilliance.